Picture "Samsara" (2023)

After studying at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Berlin (1992-1995), she attended further training courses at various art academies: Etching and Printmaking (Salzburg), Photography and Painting (Bad Reichenhall), Free and Experimental Painting (Augsburg, Trier and Kolbermoor). From 2018-2022 she studied painting with Prof. Markus Lüpertz at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kolbermoor, where she graduated as a master student. Since 2019, she has been a member of the art association "Kunst Stuttgart International", the artist community "Spinne" and the art gallery "Iazzu". Barbara Münstermann is regularly represented with her work in galleries and at art fairs. Nature is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for the artist. In her paintings, she refers to a wide variety of manifestations such as changing light atmospheres, plant forms, landscape formations and water reflections. These are the occasion and starting point for her paintings. Here she discovers hidden and fascinating things that she makes visible in her paintings. She finds, invents, condenses, supplements and expands what she sees. Her aim is to take up the natural impressions she discovers as a source of inspiration, but then to develop them further, change them, set new emphases and find her own expression, even creating completely new pictures.